The Grand Republican Ratification

The Grand republican Ratification. Saturday last was the time set for the grand republican ratification meeting in this city. Eminent speakers were to be present and every republican in the county was expected to be on hand to show the great enthusiasm felt in the party over the nomination of Harrison and Morton. The Courier, the Ypsilantian, the Saline Observer, the Manchester Enterprise and other papers announced the meeting. The drums were to beat, the horns blow and our Chinese laundrymen were to shout for "Harrison" The veterans who voted for Hallison in 1840 were to be in the front rank. One or two highly protected millionaires were desired to lend dignity to the occasion and it was thought that a large number of highly taxed farmers would drink in the eloquent words of the speakers and consent to keep on protecting the millionaires. Cheers were to rend the air, fire works to light up the heavens and the grand old party of morality ad free whiskey, of high taxes and Chinese labor was to receive and impetus, which would enable it to seat the grandson of his grandfather in the presidential chair. All this was to be. But alas for human hopes, no cheers rent the air; no highly taxed farmer listed to the sophistries of protection. no workman or mechanic testified a longing for Chinese cheap labor; no Bob Frazer or Bob Ingersoll made the welkin ring; no Junius E. Beal told the listening multitude not to buy, beg, borrow or steal a democratic paper; no Joe T. Jacobs testified devotion to the scarlet necktie; no Capt. Allen told how badly he wanted to draw a $5,000 salary another two years; no Henry D. Platt told how comfortably it felt to be inspecting oil and desired permission to keep on; no Gov. Luce begged endorsement  for striking at the University; no Chinaman told Harrison had voted eighteen times in favor of Chinese cheap labor. In fact, the ratification was a grand fizzle. The republicans didn't ratify. They didn't peep. The enthusiasm was evidently so intense that it couldn't find utterance, couldn't find speakers and couldn't find a crowd and the managers of the party gave up the idea of giving vent to it.